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Substance abuse is hardly a new companion for eating disorders. Do these buzzwords help people identify their illness?
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6 responses // The latest buzzword: drunkorexia

  • What about Bro-limia? It's when your bro has bulimia. Sad thing is until we change our culture/society and get rid of corporations and magazines such as Maxim and Cosmo, things will forever spiral downward until toddlers are looking in the mirror asking "do these diapers make me look fat? The point is to make money off of every little issue we have with ourselves. We just have to look within and find the beauty in ourselves. Not to sound like a 'Saved by the Bell' episode. Mmm-bop.
    Will_the_Thrill
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/04/com...
    I think terms such as the one Tracy discusses above are more about filling column space for desperate hacks. No news? Let's take a cultural phenomenon, and dream up a new word for it. If it gets people talking about it, and maybe noticing that one of their friends might be vulnerable, then maybe it's a good thing...? Or maybe newspapers should be diverting wages to sending journalists out on proper stories, like the good old days? Check out the link for an interesting look at how the fourth estate has failed in this respect over the last few years...
    mischabarrett
  • Most of these terms are born in the blabloids...sorry...tabloids, picked up by major broadcast Media and abused until the next term replaces them. Easily disposable, they are spewed by folks like Oprah Winfrey, Tyra Banks, Montel Williams and Dr. Phil. They are the written equivalent of a sound bite within a sound bite and, ultimately, serve no assistance in getting to the core of the problem they so easily condense.
    huntre
  • i think i have drunkorexia
    jamesfrancojames
  • Tracy is absolutely right...there are too many people today carrying on life with this newly-termed disease drunkorexia. But the problem is not these people, or these new terms we all keep hearing about. The problem is society. When are we all going to see that until society ceases to target women AND men by throwing at them an ideal body image that is physically impossible to achieve, we are going to have these eating disorders!? I am not as positive on this subject as the man from the pod. Everyone is aware of the problem, yet not near enough people are stepping up to do anything, and therefore, more and more people are cutting meals, and using substances to add to weight loss or forget about the global problem they are a part of.
    CFriedman
  • you've lost me..
    somewhere between opening music and salon dot com;

    i am just guessing here.. in that you asking if there should be a label for people who wants to look thin;

    to me its a conspiracy; to label 'thin'; as disease; as if there viral or bacterium with single mission in its life; to make homo sepiant thin as possible;

    personally?; i don't think there is such bacteria or viral infection; just mind set; i.e. psychological; i.e. condition than bacterium or viral infection;

    but then if there was man eating alien attack; least they'd be discarded and survive;

    who knows they may be man's only hope in survival; of species
    nthdot

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